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Sunrisers reignited their IPL playoff aspirations with a dramatic win that saw Bhuvneshwar (3/41) bowl out Rovman Powell (27) lbw with a full toss as RR ended up with 200/7 chasing SRH’s 201/3 .
After the match, Bhuvneshwar admitted that he felt nervous and incompetent when he ran for the final over, with RR needing 12 runs off 6 balls.
“Honestly, I was nervous when the jab in the 19th round was over Challahata. The jab, Hasmeai, Tabu bhi did not take into account (I was nervous when the 19th round started and when my hand (without thinking about it when there was a ball in it),” Bouvet said in a statement. Videos on IPL website.
Bhuvneshwar erred while trying to hit a yorker and bowled a full ball on the last ball of the match. But Powell missed and the ball hit his pads in front of the stumps.
“Their aim is not to take a wicket as they need two runs, one of which can equalize the game,” Bhuvneshwar added. “The aim is to equalize so that the game goes to the Super League, which will give We have a chance.”
The 34-year-old pacer said that sometimes a good ball doesn’t get you the wicket and sometimes you can get the ball with a full delivery.
“Like you say in cricket, sometimes you don’t get a wicket from a good ball and (other times) a full delivery gets you a wicket. So I think We were lucky to get the wickets,” he added.
SRH top scorer Nitish Reddy I really hope the game goes to a super finish.
“It was a great game. I didn’t expect Bhuvi bhai to take the wicket (of the last ball) but I was expecting a super over,” said Nitish, who scored in 42 balls for 76 points.
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Sunrises’ total surpassed 200 thanks to Nitish’s explosive knock, Travis Head’s 58 off 44 balls and Heinrich Klassen’s unbeaten 42 off 19 balls point.
Bhuvneshwar then replaced Jos Buttler and Sanju Samson in the opening over, leaving RR in trouble with a score of 1-2.
However, youngsters Yashasvi Jaiswal (67) and Riyan Parag (77) came up with a counter-attacking 50 in a mammoth partnership of 134 runs to put the runaway The chase brings us back on track.
